…and Meat Loaf rocks the beach as only Meat Loaf can

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STING FOR STRINGS: What do you do when you’ve had a nearly 40-year music career that’s spanned everything from reggae-pop to neo-baroque? You call up the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and re-arrange your greatest hits as symphonies. And you can really only get away with this if you’re Sting (who plays the second of two shows at the Metropolitan Opera tonight, in a stop on his world tour). 8PM.

BUT HE WON’T DO THAT: Meat Loaf’s latest project is a concept album called Hang Cool Teddy Bear, about an American solider wounded in Iraq who imagines how his life could have been different. We think it’d make a way better musical than American Idiot, but that’s just us. Moving on, Mr. Loaf rocks the Nikon at Jones Beach tonight.7:30PM.